By Gifty Amofa,
Accra, April 10, GNA – An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced a tiler to three years imprisonment in hard labour for stealing cables worth GHC47,000.00 belonging to a banker.
Edem Akapovi, 29, was arraigned on three charges: unlawful entry and the thefts of electricity cables and air conditioning pipes valued at GHC47,000.00 and GHC24,000.00, respectively.
However, he only admitted to stealing the cables.
The court, presided over by Mr Joseph Y. Kunsong, convicted him on his own plea and sentenced him to three years imprisonment.
Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Augustine Kingsley Oppong, giving the facts, said Mr Delali Dorcoo, the complaint, is a banker and resident of Teshie Nungua Estate.
Akapovi, the convict, was a squatter at the complaint’s uncompleted building at Teshie Rasta.
ASP Oppong said on January 27, 2026, the complainant received a phone call from his caretaker (a witness in the case) informing him that thieves had stolen his electrical cables and air condition pipes at his site at Teshie Rasta.
He said on March 15, the caretaker called the complainant again that he had arrested the tiler at the site and sent him to the Rasta Police Station.
The complaintant followed up and lodged a formal complaint, quantifying the total cost of the stolen items at GH¢70,000.00, the court heard.
During interrogations Akapovi admitted the offence in his cautioned statement and confessed of being behind the previous theft at the site, adding that he sold the items to a scrub dealer for GH¢580.00.
He, however, was unable to identify the said scrub dealer to the police to assist in investigations.
ASP Oppong said after investigations he was charged with the offences and put before court.
GNA
Edited by Agnes Boye-Doe